In the middle of 1950, a lot of Parties were formed based on tribal lines. Some of these parties included, the Northern People’s Party(NPP) led by Simon Diedong Dombo, a traditional chief from (Duori) in the Upper West Region of Ghana; Anlo Youth Organization, Muslim Association Party, Togoland Congress and many more. After Ghana attained […]
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The Winneba Fancy Dress Festival: A Colonial Tradition That Has Become an Indigenous Culture
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The Halloween-like fancy dress New Year Festival that began over a century ago in Ghana as a mocking satire of colonial life is still thriving today, with hundreds of people dressing up and wearing bizarre expressive masks! According to African-research.com Ghanaians in Winneba began forming masquerade groups in the 1920’s to Poke Fun at the Life and […]
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The Guan people comprising of 28 ethnic groups migrated to Ghana in AD1000 and are scattered across seven regions. This year, AD 2020 marks 1,020 years of their entry into Ghana. The late Anyenum Kwame Ampene from Anum Boso in 1981, launched the Guan Socio_Cultural Renaissance at Ajumako that give birth to the Guan Congress […]
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A shameful legacy that echoes into the present — and shouldn’t be buried in the history books. In the late 1800s, colonial exhibits became popular in the western world — exhibits that not only showcased artifacts but actual people. In the era before cinema, these shows allowed westerners to see the foreigners they’d only heard […]
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Operational Christianity started 267 Years ago. (As at December 2020) The most momentous discovery in western Africa came in 1471, when Portuguese captains first reached the coast of modern Ghana between the mouths of the Ankobra and Volta rivers. Yes! Some of the missionaries came with them (549 years ago) but many died from the […]
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After the death of Ago, his successor Ago Akoli became king just before the middle of the seventeenth century. According to all accounts he was an energetic and dynamic leader, and he ended some of the proscriptions that inhibited the exercising of his function as leader. Unfortunately, things were not exactly the same during the […]
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There are many different schools of thought about the origins of the Ewe tribe, with a school of thought tracing the origin as far back as an earlier settlement in Adzatome, a suburb founded by Ham, the second son of Noa in the Bible; Noa being the progenitor of various tribes. It is here that we […]
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She is believed to be the greatest Akonedi priestess who ever lived. Okomfohemmaa (priestess) Akua Oparebea was born in 1900. Both her father and mother were from distinquished royal families. While she was yet a suckling, her aunt professed under fetish influence proclaimed that she would be a fetish priestess who would one day be […]
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The Shrine had its ancient roots from a lady called Nedi who was the daughter of a man called Akon from Kubease. Nedi is said to have become pregnant and to have died (perhaps during childbirth) in the bush on the outskirts of Kubease. A search for her body revealed only an Anthill. According to […]
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Mahama taught high-school history for a few years before pursuing a postgraduate degree in social psychology from the Institute of Social Sciences in Moscow, which was awarded in 1988. After Mahama returned to Ghana, he worked in Accra as the Information, Culture, and Research Officer at the embassy of Japan until 1995. He then worked […]
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The famous Kantamanto Market is located in the central business district of Accra. It is Ghana’s largest second-hand clothes market. A walk through the market shows a large number of traders in congested wooden stalls, selling their used clothes and footwear while calling out buyers to patronise their goods. Other traders have stationed themselves on […]
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Among the Asante and other Akan peoples, stools play an important role in each person’s life milestones. When children learn to crawl, they receive stools as their first gift from their father. For young women, puberty rites entail sitting on their stools. A husband presents his wife with a stool when they marry. A deceased […]
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The historic Ashanti occupied an area of about 24,379 square miles, about 9,700of which are in the contemporary Ashanti Region of the Republic of Ghana (the formerGold Coast). The Ashanti created an independent kingdom which flourished from the 17th century until their conflict with the British at the end of the 19th century. Through the […]
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These people were killed under mysterious circumstances and till date the Ghana Police are yet to unravel the very people behind their deaths or why they were killed! It is widely believed some POWERFUL PEOPLE are behind their deaths… But how do you prove that? The Mystery continues! Whiles the Plot Thickens till infinity because […]
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Traditional religion in Ghana has been linked to human rights abuse on account of the widely-held belief that through the use of human parts, rituals could be performed to affect the material circumstances of the individual making the request. Consequently, some individuals were killed for purposes that must have been related to the performance of […]
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The Pan African Orchestra was founded in 1988 by the late Nana Danso Abiam to develop a new style of orchestral music that explores the classical foundations of African music, utilizing African traditional and neo-traditional sound sources and concepts as a framework point of reference. The Instrumentation of the Orchestra consists of: 16 atenteben flutes, […]
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The exact date the Methodist Church came to Mankessim, the heartland of the Mfantsepeople is not certain. Arkaifie states, for instance, that the Methodist Church in Mankessim was established in 1838. This is countered by the church‟s souvenir programme, which indicates that it was founded in 1836, immediately, after that of the Enyan Abassa society […]
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In the 1940s, there was a segregated hospital located on the hill over-looking Bantama Township called: African and European Hospitals. As their names implied, the African side treated Africans while the European side treated Europeans. However, on some rare occasions, high-ranking African government officials were given treatment in the European section. (Executive Treatment) By 1952, […]
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Colonialism played a significant role in distorting the history and perception of Africa. Until recently, when scientific proof debunked age-long misconceptions about the continent, many Schools of thought did not recognize Africa’s contribution to civilization and humanity in general. Enormous footprints of civilization were present in many ancient African kingdoms like Kemet, Bini, Timbuktu, Ta […]
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He was just four years old when his uncle, Prempeh I (the 13th Asantehene), his maternal grandmother, queen Nana Yaa Akyaa, and other family members were captured and exiled to the Seychelles Islands by the British in 1896. Prempeh I returned from exile in 1924 and died in May 1931, and Otumfuo Prempeh II was […]